Movies

Previous
Next
Cruising (1980) Nearly a decade after The Exorcist, William Friedkin made a film that stirred up just as much trouble with a whole new crowd. Al Pacino plays a young police officer who goes undercover in the murky, S&M-flavoured underbelly of New York's meatpacking district, in pursuit of a killer who has been picking up his victims in gay bars. The film's production was protested by gay rights groups, who objected to its generalisations about homosexual nightlife, but the initially frosty critical reception has warmed over time.
8 of 20